After breakfast we fell out on the Parade Ground. Indianporn The next morning at 0345 we fell out with fifty pound pack for a leisure 5 mile hike, to us country boys it was a walk in the park. Unlike most of my drivers of late this one never shut up. The pilots began to fire off the engines and one behind the other they made their way out onto the runway. You know when you put Crash in the same sentence with airplane.. My driver drove out to an area that was lined up with eight B- 17’s which these pilots were delivering to London. So shower, write a letter home to the family then into bed. The next class would have a large amount of experienced people to fill it. In case of attack I would be one of only 2 gunners on this skeleton crew. “ Don’t worry Major your baggage is going first class it will be at Langley when you arrive.”
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